Berta F. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Berta F., who was born in Romania to a family of seven children. She recalls her father going to Belgium in 1939; his incarceration as a refugee (she never saw him again); her older brother's forced service in a Hungarian labor battalion; ghettoization in 1944; deportation with her siblings to Auschwitz in May (she never saw her mother again); separation from her siblings upon arrival (she never saw them again); digging ditches; transfer to Mittelsteine in November 1944; forced labor in an airplane factory; becoming a "lager sister" to four other prisoners; assistance from a German foreman and an SS woman; liberation; living with a Czech family; assistance from the Joint in Budapest; returning home; learning only two cousins had survived; fleeing to Germany; marriage in a displaced persons camp; and emigration to Canada four years later. She discusses the importance of friendship to her survival and emotional numbness in the camps.

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